Hello Colin, On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 00:10 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 08:06:01PM +0100, Franklin PIAT wrote: > > I'm writing some manpages, and I wonder what's the current practice for > > documenting a file like in /etc/default/foobar. > > > > On my laptop [1], only /etc/default/rcS seems to have a manpage in the > > section 5. > > As you note, I'm not sure that this is obviously common practice, but > IMO (speaking as the man-db maintainer) foobar(5) is clearly reasonable. > If there is another configuration file called 'foobar', it's probably in > the same package, and you can just document both in the same manual > page. > > If you prefer, you can document it in the manual page for the program > instead. Thanks for the advice.
I think i will do it in the appropriate program manpage (just in case upstream makes a foobar program someday). Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
